I just had a conversation with a friend of mine who is changing careers and starting his own business.
We chatted about layouts & copywriting for websites, and social media. I was singing the praise of blogs and LinkedIn (and Twitter and facebook, but we’ll leave those for another time) and the many ways of meaningfully connecting websites with social media. I talked excitedly about he possibilities of writing in a professional yet personal way to bring your business and value to your audience – and generally displayed my inner communications nerd -, when I heard a big silence spread at the other end of the line.
Assumption is a dangerous thing, they say. Luckily, sometimes it’s just impolite. Phew!
My friend was new to social media for business, and especially a”LinkedIn virgin”. He, understandably, felt a bit overwhelmed by the possibilities and confused by the mechanics. So we ran through the gist of set up and options – and I think I created a fellow LinkedIn devotee. And all in half an hour. It’s easy to get started and quite a bit addictive to keep going and growing.
Try for yourself: Read here about the essentials that will get you a long way, and here for a few further bits of how to utilise LinkedIn for your business.
Drop me a line via the comments box below. I am looking forward to hearing about your experiences.
You can connect with me via my LinkedIn profile here. Let’s get connected….
Until next time,
Daniela




May 12th, 2010 at 21:41
cool, nice
linkedin is really starting to come into its own… annoying bit of information about linkedin though is that it seems that activity inside linkedin such as taking part in discussions etc is not “seen” by google and hence there is not SEO benefit to being active in Linkedin… trying to work out how to get around that issue
ciao
roland